Reviewed in SAILING January 2010: Everything Volvo does with this race is done professionally - and that goes for this book and DVD package too. It’s awesome! Simple as that. It’s a story of endurance, deprivation and adventure. It’s a story of winners and losers and of those who made it and those who didn’t. This is a coffee table book that one must savour over time. It’s not a bed-time book as one has to linger over the magnificent pictures, savour them, and savour them again as the pics are taken by some of the world’s best yachting photographers, including Rick Tomlinson. Chapter 1 sets the tone with a description of leg one, the people and the boats. It’s riveting stuff indeed, with much more in the following chapters and 240 pages. This is a superbly well written book that brings this race alive for the landlubber, and even those sailors who dream one day of competing, or wish they were young enough to be able to compete. And on every page spread there is a pic, or two, or three .... The Volvo Ocean Race is a tough race. Just 88 men set off from Alicante in Spain. Just 36 did the full 37 000 miles to the finish in St Petersburg. Japan’s Black Tide, brutal weather, injuries, and even the credit crunch took their toll. And then, having savoured the incredible pictures and read the words which describe the action, drama and human endeavour that the Volvo Ocean Race is famous for, one can catch the actual drama by viewing the two-hour DVD which comes with the book. There is some awesome footage taken by some incredibly talented MCMs (media crew members) who did little else but capture the drama and action of this race around the world. Get it now!

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Book ID (for ordering):   2601